Everybody should be using a Winkey to key CW. Some people will deny that keying directly from an serial port controlled by windows causes keying errors. When we ran DOS, the applications could have unfettered access to the ports. You could also easily harness the system clock and use it rather than the OS to supply the timing for CW. It was easy to background a process like sending CW knowing you had control of the port when you needed it. Not so with Windows98 and up. XP is especially bad.
Ever had an application or the OS grab a hold of a USB, serial or parallel port and not let go when the application or process terminated? It never happened in DOS. One question for the doubters. If a winkey like device isn't necessary to send properly timed CW, why do several hardware manufacturers, Micro Ham, US Interface, Rig Expert, and nearly all general and contest logging applications support it? Just to make K1EL rich? W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: > N1MM users have had similar issues. I don't know if AB7R's fix works but > many have just gone to a Winkey keyer as a solution. I have one built into > my SO2R MK2R+ Microham devices so I have never seen this issue. > > > "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may > never get over." Ben Franklin -- R. Kevin Stover, ACØH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
